U.S. Military Spending Compared to Everyone Else

1 July, 2011 marks the deadline for the raising the debt ceiling in the United States.  Republicans are wanting dramatic reductions in spending before they will agree to raise the debt limits.  What you won’t hear is the United States could immediately cut its...

Social Unrest in China On the Rise

  In my “What My Intuition Tells Me Now” 2011 Predictions post of 13 December, 2010, I said that China was going to experience a lot of social unrest this year as they tried to reign in their overheated economy and inflated gross domestic product...

The Type of Selling I Hate

This morning the Dow Jones Industrial Average is in free fall and in an information vacuum.  This is the type of selling I hate.  Why?  Because as I read the various quotes from traders that are in the business press they are all saying that the selling is triggered...